2011.11.16

1.Judy Clegg will join us at 3:30.** Judy will be teaching appropriate research skills and how to differnentiate sites.She will send us a list of the sites that fourth graders should/can use when doing research of any kind. If we need to extend our classes by ten minutes or so, we are all able to do that. In addition, we offered to team teach any of the lessons which will begin after Thanksgiving. ** .** Kelley to report on Reading Conference. Kelley shared a bit about the reading conference, explaining that all people who attended who are classroom teachers will begin this pilot in January. They are also responsible for teaching the Trophies lessons. It appears that next year it will be adopted in all LS classrooms, but that has not been communicated to us through the appropriate channels. Apparently a change is taking place in January without it going through the LA committee and the proper channels. Some of us were confused by that decision since we understand that changes --- additions or deletions to a curricular area must go through the department to be santioned. We will not be getting a new packaged reading program as the cost of it is not in our LS budget. In order for this new program to be viable classroom libraries should have around 1,000 books on the shelves available for the students. ** 2. Decide on a Shakespeare ** Begin on Dec. 5 with our introduction to literature circles taking place on Dec. 1 -2. Shared info on lit circles with Kelley and talked about assessing comprehension, fluency, projects. ** 4. SW WI Trip-- need to book some of the venues ** Divided up contact list: ** 5. Grandparents and Special Friends Day-- share what we do with Kelley ** shared materials and the flow of the day ** 6. Make up ERB's-- what's the scoop with that?
 * Bevins Mine- Rollo Jam -- Gina **
 * Pendarvis- Gina **
 * Cave of Mounds- Ren **
 * Aztalan- Ren **
 * Comfort Inn- Ren **
 * Capitol - Gina **
 * Veteran's Museum - Gina **
 * Milton House - Cheryl **
 * Discovery Coach - Ren **
 * Additional discussion will take place as we tweak the trip for this year's group. **